Wall-crossing, Hitchin systems, and the WKB approximation

DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2012.09.027zbMath1358.81150arXiv0907.3987OpenAlexW2172095894WikidataQ56057587 ScholiaQ56057587MaRDI QIDQ1935187

Gregory W. Moore, Davide Gaiotto, Andrew Neitzke

Publication date: 11 February 2013

Published in: Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider BPS states in a large class of d=4, N=2 field theories, obtained by reducing six-dimensional (2,0) superconformal field theories on Riemann surfaces, with defect operators inserted at points of the Riemann surface. Further dimensional reduction on S^1 yields sigma models, whose target spaces are moduli spaces of Higgs bundles on Riemann surfaces with ramification. In the case where the Higgs bundles have rank 2, we construct canonical Darboux coordinate systems on their moduli spaces. These coordinate systems are related to one another by Poisson transformations associated to BPS states, and have well-controlled asymptotic behavior, obtained from the WKB approximation. The existence of these coordinates implies the Kontsevich-Soibelman wall-crossing formula for the BPS spectrum. This construction provides a concrete realization of a general physical explanation of the wall-crossing formula which was proposed in 0807.4723. It also yields a new method for computing the spectrum using the combinatorics of triangulations of the Riemann surface.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0907.3987

zbMATH Keywords

hyper-Kähler geometry wall-crossing Hitchin systems supersymmetric field theory Fock-Goncharov coordinates

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Hyper-Kähler and quaternionic Kähler geometry, ``special geometry (53C26) Semiclassical techniques, including WKB and Maslov methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81Q20) Twistor methods in differential geometry (53C28) Relationships between algebraic curves and integrable systems (14H70) Representations of quivers and partially ordered sets (16G20) Applications of vector bundles and moduli spaces in mathematical physics (twistor theory, instantons, quantum field theory) (14D21)

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